people will shrink over 3%, average owners 4% and top earns about six%, secretary of state hillary clinton is expected to return to work next week, a spokesman for her says she continues to recuperate at home and well resume her work schedule next week. doctors say she contracted a stomach virus and became dehydrated and fainted and hit her head and diagnosed with a concussion and has not been seen in public since. >>> the contra costa fire county district has scheduled meetings to discuss fire station closure, four of the 28 stations are set to close on january 15th in those areas. the fire chief and board members will be there to take questions and talk about it. the first meeting is january 7th in lafayette. we have posted the times and locations on the hot topics page. >>> a victim of a hit and run crash says he has first hand knowledge of the crime in oakland. he was stranded there for several hours. the man said he drove more than 50 miles to visit his father in oakland last night and when he got there a pickup truck slammed into his parked car breaking its axel, the driver ran from